Quotes about writing
writing race people
Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry." If I write about a married person who lives in Vermont, it becomes "Oh, she's autobiographical." Jamaica Kincaid
writing two justice
What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.
writing materials my-own
I like writing my own material - Im pretty good at it. Jackee Harry
writing thinking vanity
I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught. Jackie Collins
writing numbers different
There's always things that you know about that nobody else, because everybody's life is different. So you write about what you know. That's number one.
writing want storyteller
I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.
writing people secret
A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.
writing color people
I'm a storyteller, I'm not a literary writer, and I don't want to be a literary writer. People say to me, "Oh, when are you going to write something different?" What? I don't want to write anything different. I'm writing relationships between people, all different colors, all different sizes, all different sexual orientations, and that's what I want to do.
writing thinking style
Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.
writing want scripts
When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!' Jackie Chan
writing thinking ideas
I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing. Jack Whitehall
writing thinking people
Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania-that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love with her. But I don't think so. Jack White
writing long sopranos
The Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good. James Gandolfini
writing sometimes good-writing
Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.
writing honest interest
I can't write. I would love to. I don't really have an interest in it, to be honest. I'll leave that to my fiance. Jennifer Aniston
writing reality stories
The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.
writing letters lucky
I'm lucky if I write a letter.
writing fiction talent
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent. Jeanne Moreau
writing loss done
I love to write and I love the natural world. Everything I've written about I've found exciting and it has never left me at a loss for words. I've always just done what I love. Jean Craighead George
writing people problem
To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.
writing get-away impulse
Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself. Graham Swift
writing first-love love-is
I write a lot of stuff, and some of it I don't even present to Judas Priest. But having said that, my first love is to play Judas Priest music. Glenn Tipton
writing challenges intimate
The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head. Gloria Estefan
writing reason no-reason
There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.
writing laughing succeed
I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding. Giacomo Casanova
writing done worthy
If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.
writing order too-much
I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free. Gertrude Stein
writing mind heard
I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
writing eye creative
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
writing way stranger
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
writing mind kind
And the writers are good in that it's easy to memorize, and good writing has an innate rhythm to it. And I've always felt that it's easier to get in your head than writing that has very kind of mind busting moments. Glenn Close
writing piano hymns
It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write. Jessi Colter
writing half crafts
Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp. Ice T